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Sen. John McCain, one of the last non-anguished interventionists in Washington (his Sancho Panza, fellow Republican Lindsey Graham, is another), had a very good last week. He watched President Barack Obama decide to drop bombs on Syria, a policy McCain has long endorsed. He saw the non-interventionist wing of his party suddenly revise its views when it came under pressure from Middle East reality. He played polar bear to ex-White House flack Jay Carney's baby seal on CNN. When I met with McCain in his Senate office on Wednesday, I asked him about his colleague, Sen. Rand Paul, who lately has been arguing that he himself is not, in fact, an isolationist. Paul is McCain's main...

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